Author: Rotary News
A lake in Pune gets a new life
Rotary Club of Pune Kothrud, RID 3131, has embarked on the Ramnadi Rejuvenation Sustainability Project to restore the Ramnadi river originating in the Sahyadri ranges and flowing through northwest Pune comprising Bhugaon, Bhukum, Bavdhan, Pashan, Baner and Aundh regions. The river has turned into a sewage canal due to dumping of construction debris and garbage.
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RC Roop Nagar conducts crucial training to save lives
When he was on a tour last year to a famous winery in Waiheke Island of New Zealand, a very famous tourist destination, Dr BPS Parmar, past president of the Rotary Club of Roop Nagar, RID 3080, noticed, while disembarking at the ferry station, an automated external defibrillator (AED) installed at the waiting area. “I noted that this device, which delivers an emergency shock to the chest in a bid to revive a victim of a sudden cardiac arrest, had been donated by RC Waiheke Island,” recalls the laparoscopy surgeon who has specialised in metabolic surgery.
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On the reading highway
Where do I begin to tell the story of how engaging it was to read Amor Towles’s The Lincoln Highway, all 576 pages of it in smallish print? Possibly for the first time in over 60 years of reading, I fell in love with a chapter.
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When the privileged wreak havoc
The shocking incident in Pune of an intoxicated 17-year-old overspeeding in a Porsche at nearly 200kmph, and that too on a narrow lane, and killing two young techies returning home after a get-together, has sent shockwaves across the country.
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A journey to chaos… and back
The Fall of Kabul — Despatches from Chaos by journalist Nayanima Basu, (Bloomsbury; Rs.599) promises a lot, but ends up a tad disappointing. Make no mistake about it…any journalist who has landed in the Afghan capital in August 2021, barely 10 days before its heartbreaking capitulation to the Taliban without any fight or resistance, will have a captivating and gripping story to tell.
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60 children treated for clubfoot
Couple Ravi Bawri and Tusu Devi from Seetaldih village at Chandankiyari taluk, 23km from Bokaro, Jharkhand, found to their dismay that their newborn had clubfoot, a congenital foot deformity in which the limb is curved inwards with toes glued together.
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The Rotary buzz in Kolkata
RIPE Stephanie Urchick was impressed going through the super speciality wings of Rotary Techno Netralaya, the largest among the 13 eye hospitals being run by RID 3291, at Salt Lake, Sector-5, the IT hub of Kolkata.
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Rotary clubs celebrate 118 tribal weddings
RC Bombay Queen City, RID 3141, through its interactions with the Yuva Parivarthan, a Mumbai-based NGO, discovered a concerning situation in Kasa village, Palghar, near Mumbai.
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E-autorickshaws for women
Eleven women hailing from economically weak families in Bengaluru received battery- operated autorickshaws through a community service project led by RC Bangalore West, RID 3192, in association with its funding partner ATOS Global IT Solutions and Services.
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Thank you and keep dreaming big
Every June, we in Rotary look back at our accomplishments and plan for what’s next. For me, this month is the end of seven years in Rotary leadership that began as president-elect of RI.
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